Citizens do not have enough information about activity of public authorities

11 march 2016

The Analytical Center and the Ministry for Economic Development of Russia have jointly held an expert workshop on “Implementation of methodological guidelines for development, revision, monitoring and supervision of the federal executive authorities’ action plans.

Deputy Head of the Analytical Center Mikhail Pryadilnikov reminded that the
government resolution No 1449 “On the procedure for development, revision of
development, revision, monitoring and supervision of the implementation of the
action plans of federal executive authorities whose activities are managed by
the Government of the Russian Federation” was issued on December 26, 2015. It
is planned that federal executive authorities should develop action plans
within a month, the Deputy Head of the Analytical Center noted.

Aslan Naskidaev, a representative of the Ministry for Economic Development
of Russia, talked about work on development of action plans. “First a
draft plan is discussed by the public council of the federal executive
authority and on the Internet, then they are revised and approved by the head
of the executive authority,” the official said. “In the end the final action
plan is published on the official website of the executive authority and on
other resources.” There also exist schedules of events to implement the
strategic planning documents and the implementation of the action plans is
being monitored and supervised, the expert noted.

Project manager of the Analytical Center “Forum” Yekaterina Kolomenskaya
believes that public declaration is the most important element in the system.
“All sociological polls that we conduct show that our target audience does not
understand what the government and its ministries are up to and what kind of
issues they are dealing with,” the expert said. Especially there is a lack of
information on the activities of executive authorities, the specialist
believes. “We need public declaration to ensure that the targets we set for the
year can be easily understood by the population,” – Ms. Kolomenskaya
explained. It’s equally important to report on the progress we make in
achieving our goals, noted the expert.

All sociological polls that we conduct show that our target audience does
not understand what the government and its ministries are up to and what kind
of issues they are dealing with,

Yekaterina Kolomenskaya, Head of Projects at the Analytical Center
Forum

The comments made by representatives of federal executive authorities during
the discussion are going to be taken into account when revisions are made to
the document.